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![Competent](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110231605.gif) |
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Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret. |
![Competent](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110231601.gif) |
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8 November 1943 The Compentent is seen to the right of the USS Gear (ARS 34) in San Francisco, CA U.S. Navy photo 7511-43 |
Darryl Baker |
![AMS-5 Condor/LST-735 Dukes County](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110500502.gif) |
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Dukes County (LST 735) serving as mother ship for seven minesweepers, probably in a Japanese port, c. 1952-54. Ships nested alongside are: Gull (AMS-16); Firecrest (AMS-10); Condor (AMS-5); Merganser (AMS-26); Osprey (AMS-28); Competent; and Chief (AM-315). Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection. U.S. Navy photo NH 68589 |
Naval Historical Center |
![Competent](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110231602.gif) |
303k |
29 February 1952 Long Beach, CA recommissioning of Competent, Gladiator (AM 319) and Devastator (AM 318) |
Ron Reeves |
![Competent](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110231603.gif) |
248k |
![Competent](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110231604.gif) |
790k |
Long Beach Press-Telegram article dated 29 February 1952 |
![Chief](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110231504.gif) |
245k |
27 January 1953 newspaper article from the Evening Bulliten/Hawaiian Star Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii |
Robert Hurst |